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Wow yet another 100% inaccurate hot take on the contact tracing system. "you will be required to enter your health information" - nope "it will be sent to servers" - nope.

Just getting that far told me that reading this was a waste of time.

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How will it work?

You might find the FAQ here [1] helpful, but there is also more technical info linked from that page also.

[1] https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing

Have you actually read any of the descriptions of how it works? Health data is not transmitted. No information ever leaves the device, with the sole exception of when you choose to notify other that you tested positive. That uploads enough material for all other users to determine if they were ever in the vicinity of your device - but no other information. The only thing that can be determined is whether at some point they were in the vicinity of a device that subsequently reported testing positive.

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